Abstracts

THAP011 (Poster)

AIDA - Accelerator Integrated Data Access

M. Clausen, R. MacKenzie, R. Sass, H. Shoaee, K. Underwood,
G. White

All Control Systems that grow to any size have a variety of data that are
stored in different formats on different nodes in the network. Examples include sensor
value and status, archived sensor data, device oriented support data and relationships,
message logs, application and machine configurations etc. Each type of data typically has
a different programming interface. Frequently applications would like to access a
logically related set of data that is in different data stores. Aida is envisioned to be a
distributed service that allows applications access to this wide variety of Control System
data in a consistent way. It has the additional goal of providing an object-oriented layer
for constructing a Control System using existing conventional systems like EPICS. Design
overview and current status will be presented.